Word: notion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover: "No, sir. . . . The notion . . . is grotesque...
...week this little man, Jose Jurado, had kept his .obliging manners, his smiles, efficiency, and unconcern. He had led the qualifiers for the British Open Golf Championship. Now, playing his last round, he was doing his best to upset the English notion that no member of a Latin race could stand the strain of tournament golf...
...instead of into the very fibre of his being. Before they can be junked there will have to be eliminated from college all except those who have a serious purpose to study and learn. And before that can be done we shall have to rid ourselves of the false notion that a college degree is a badge of social eminence. Judge...
South Carolina's senior Senator, Coleman L. Blease, scouted the notion that his State, outstanding exemplar of secession, would bolt the Democratic ticket if Smith were nominated. This and other statements quieted the talk of Smith's "splitting" the South...
...report from Jersey City was extremely premature and unreliable. Observers put not a jot of faith in it. But it quickened their notion that in the coming campaign as never before the Democrats will have to demonstrate that their ideals have hands and feet and that the G.O.P., whatever other trusts it shelters, has no monopoly of the country's brainpower...